When guns boom, the arts die.
What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educati...
Emma Goldman.
We will not know unless we begin.
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.
To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.
In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates.
Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief and noted orator, tried to unite the Indians against the white invasion: The way, and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the Redmen to unite in claiming...
In New Orleans in 1907 a general strike on the levees, involving ten thousand workers (longshoremen, teamsters, freight handlers), black and white, lasted twenty days. The head of the Negro longshorem...
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however l...
Because of Columbus’s exaggerated report and promises, his second expedition was given seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men. The aim was clear: slaves and gold. They went from island to is...
Will not hold ourselves bound to obey the laws in which we have no voice of representation.
When President Jimmy Carter, responding to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, called for the registration of young men for military draft, more than 800,000 (10 percent) failed to register. O...
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that...
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
In the mid-thirties, a young black poet named Langston Hughes wrote a poem, Let America Be America Again:. . . I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I a...
Combien de gens exercent-ils le travail de leur choix ? Certains scientifiques, artistes, quelques travailleurs très qualifiés ou certaines professions libérales ont peut-être cette satisfaction, mais...
But opinion surveys in the 1980s and 1990s showed that Americans favored health care for everyone. They also were in favor of guaranteed jobs, government help for the poor and homeless, military budge...
Another black woman, Margaret Wright, said she was not fighting for equality with men if it meant equality in the world of killing, the world of competition. I don't want to compete on no damned explo...